A Popular Handbook To The Tate Gallery National Gallery Of British Art Classic Reprint

Author : James Bolivar Manson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332418377
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Tate Gallery (Classic Reprint) written by James Bolivar Manson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tate Gallery The collection of paintings in the Tate Gallery may not be a perfect representation of the whole of British art, justly balanced, equally strong in all periods, but it does serve as a conspectus by which the general direction, and the lines on which English painting has grown, from Hogarth to the present day, may be studied. Art in England has developed mainly by the operation of the forces of reaction, punctuated, as it were, by influence from abroad. The rise and fall in the course of its progress may be easily perceived the heights are not more clearly marked than the depressions. It is convenient to make Van Dyck the starting-point, for the work of the Flemish master dominated the English School for nearly one hundred years from the middle of the seventeenth century, and his attractive if artificial methods and style were exploited by most of the English painters. In the hands of Lely, Kneller, and others the practice of painting gradually degenerated - the usual result of adopting second-hand methods - into the driest convention. A reaction from it - a breaking away and return to nature - became inevitable. The appearance of William Hogarth, as the pioneer of the realists, marked the inauguration of a period of individualistic painters, drawing inspiration from nature rather than from the work of the older masters, although still far from complete emancipation, and still strongly under the influences of an accepted and fashionable style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.